THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



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PAUL'S CARMINE is a garden variety, and a 

 welcome addition to single Roses because of its 

 bright carmine-red flowers. Its vigorous growth 

 makes it useful for walls, fences, and on pillars 

 it does well. 



PAUL'S SINGLE WHITE is a vigorous Rose 

 of garden origin, and as we happen to have it 

 growing beside moschata nivea think it not 

 nearly so good. It is rampant, hardy, and has 

 large' deep green leaves, the flowers in large 

 clusters, scented, the buds of a tender pink 

 colour, but the flowers do not open out like 

 those of the Musk Rose, and the anthers turn 

 black. It is nevertheless a useful single Rose 

 if placed apart from the others, and it has one 

 merit which they lack in flowering in succession. 

 The vigorous shoots which grow up at the time 



Asia, and, although often planted, is scarcely 

 ever made enough of in country places. It is 

 most useful for forming fences with Quick or 

 even by itself on good banks, as it is so 

 spiny that cattle, which do so much harm 

 to almost every other kind of hedge plant, do 

 not touch this, so that it swings careless in the 

 field where they are. The plant ought to be 

 grown by the thousand, and anybody with a 

 few bushes of it can save the seed for this pur- 

 pose. It is a delightful plant from the time its 

 buds burst in early spring until the birds have 

 eaten the brilliant berries in winter. 



R. RUBRIFOLIA (Red-leaved Rose] should 

 have a place for its lovely tinted leaves and 

 shoots : it has a rambling or climbing habit, 

 but also grows into a large self-supporting bush. 



The Austrian Copper Brie 



of the first blooming usually produce a great 

 cluster of flowers at the top when they have 

 completed their growth. 



R. POLYANTHA (Bramble Rose). A rampant 

 climber, which will quickly climb a tree, cover 

 a building, or, away from any support, spread 

 into an enormous bush. It has long, spineless 

 shoots clothed with glossy green leaves, 

 blooming early in June ; a mass of white flowers 

 crowded in a pyramidal truss, with a powerful 

 scent. The variety grandiflora is an improve- 

 ment, but as yet it does not seem to have been 

 much planted. It has all the vigour of the 

 type, and flowers much larger. They cluster 

 in an immense truss, are pure white and sweetly 

 scented. 



R. RUBIGINOSA (Sweetbrier}. Perhaps as 

 pretty as any Wild Rose in flower, fruit, and 

 delightful fragrance. It is a native Rose, but 

 also distributed through much of Europe and 



The flowers are red and small, the fruits 

 purplish-red with soft flesh. Its chief charm, 

 however, is in the colour of shoots and leaves. 

 The young, strong shoots are purple-red 

 overlaid with a pale gray bloom, whilst the 

 leaves are of a peculiar glaucous colour brightly 

 tinged with red. North America. 



R. RUGOSA (Ratnanas Rose). A strong 

 grower in any soil, it is one of the best, making 

 a handsome bush when isolated, but large 

 gardens should have great groups of it, and in 

 leaf, flower, and fruit it is beautiful ; it is a 

 long and persistent bloomer, and reaches the 

 zenith of its beauty when the secondary flowers 

 come with the glowing orange and red fruits 

 that have succeeded the first flowers. Then a 

 second crop of ripe fruit appears late in autumn, 

 w r hen the leaves turn yellow, showing the Rose 

 in another pretty aspect. It makes a good 

 hedge, and where pretty dividing lines are 



